Comeback kid

Katherine Neville thrilled audiences in 1988 with The Eight, an intense debut novel that drew comparisons to Umberto Eco and became a major bestseller. The book interlaced the stories of two women - Cat Velis, a computer expert in 1972, and Mireille de Remy, a nun - in - training in 1790 - with the legend of a chess set that, when all the pieces are reunited, gives the user unlimited power....